The National Center for Education Statistics has published the results ofits effort to link the score scales of twoassessments<http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/studies/naep_timss/>:the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Trends inInternational Mathematics and Science Study. With this study, all 52states/jurisdictions that participate in the 2011 NAEP math and scienceassessments can compare the performance of their eighth-grade students withthose of other countries. Overall, 36 states bested peers abroad in math,while 47 states topped peers abroad in science. Alaska students on averagescored better than those of many nations.